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this group in analyses (e.g., small sample size, use of a curriculum other than the
curriculum in the two larger sites), results were not included in the current study.
Classrooms
Several differences distinguished full-day from half-day classrooms in the Rocky
Mountain SER Pueblo Head Start Program. Full-day classrooms included a maximum of
20 children, and children participated in program activities for approximately 6 hours per
day, 5 days per week. Half-day classrooms included a maximum of 17 children, and
children participated in program activities for approximately 3.5 hours per day, 4 days
per week. Except for the full-day classroom at the smallest site, full-day classrooms were
staffed with a lead teacher, an assistant teacher, and a teaching assistant. The full-day
classroom at the smallest site was staffed with a lead and assistant teacher only. Half-day
classrooms at all three sites were staffed with a lead teacher and assistant teacher only.
All full-day classrooms provided children breakfast, lunch, and a snack during the day.
Half-day classrooms provided children breakfast and a snack during morning
programming hours, and lunch and a snack during afternoon programming hours.
Placement in full-day classrooms was offered to children whose parents either
worked or attended college full-time, and placement in either a morning or afternoon
half-day classroom depended primarily on individual families‘ schedules and access to
the program‘s bus routes (if families weren‘t able to transport children to and from either
Head Start site).
Classrooms in the two larger sites included at least one ―foster grandparent,‖ an
older adult from the community paid to work in a classroom on a regularly scheduled
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